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The Center blog features writing by the museum staff, volunteers, students and guest writers. If you are interested in contributing to our blog, please send a bio and short statement about your topic to burchfld@buffalostate.edu.You can also participate with the Burchfield Penney on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Burchfield Penney 2015-16 artist-in-residence Philip Koch
spoke to a packed audience of docents this morning that enjoyed his
sense of humor, unique flair and creative perspective. “Art is a
feeling stimulated by visual objects, shapes and color,” said Koch
during his talk as part … more

Monday, June 22, 2015

Earlier this month I was at the Burchfield Penney Art
Center for my first visit as the Art Center's Artist In
Residence. One of my goals with the Residency is to study the
working process of Charles Burchfield, an artist I deeply admire,
to nourish my own working methods with my … more

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

In my opinion, Charles Burchfield is one of the best painters of the 20th century. Burchfield has been one of the main influences on my own paintings of the natural world. I'm honored to be given this opportunity by the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

These remarks were given by Burchfield Penney executive director Tony Bannon as part of the Charles E. Burchfield Award being given to United States Poet Laureate Charles Wright on May 27, 2015 at the Burchfield Penney.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Two of my favorite landscape painters are Paul Cézanne and
Charles Burchfield. I like Cézanne because of
the way he painted – those hooks
and dabs of color, everything almost individual until you step back
and it all coalesces. And I like … more

"Burchfield has exacted a quality that we may call poetic, romantic, lyric, or what you will. By sympathy with the particular, he has made it epic and universal." - Edward Hopper, who was friends with Burchfield (both were represented by the Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries in New York).